Culture Quote by Christine Baranski

Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached…

— Richard Rohr

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

“mental self-images instead of living in the primal “I” that is already good in God’s eyes. But all I can “pay back” to God…

— Richard Rohr

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

“What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be “Ourselves”?”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

— H. L. Mencken

“Isn't it strange that what we call "self" doesn't really constitute of our "own". It consists of parts and bits of so many people…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

“One of the major problems in the spiritual life is our attachment to our own self-image—either positively or negatively created. We have to begin…

— Richard Rohr

“The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.”

— Martha MacCullough

“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“It is fairly commonplace now to admit that our American culture is centered around the self. We believe in the supremacy of self-interest to…

— Gale Heide

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really…

— Adyashanti